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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

For our annual Halloween episode John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by Fiona Wilson and Andrew Male to discuss Shirley Jackson's final novel 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle'. In this show's 'What We Have Been Reading' slot John discusses 'True Ghost Stories of Our Own Time' by Vivienne Rae-Ellis, while Andy puts forward 'Going on the Turn', the third memoir from Danny Baker. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 5'07 - True Ghost Sories Of Our Own Time by Vivienne Rae-Ellis 11'52 - Going On The Turn by Danny Baker 20'59 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show and join in with the book chat, listen without adverts, receive the show early and get extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a patron at www.patreon.com/backlisted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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